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The religious life within and around the Roman Empire, and the
context into which Christianity emerged and where it spread,
provides a topic of the widest interest. Yet this context was not
that of a completely pagan world, for Judaism was already firmly
established and continued as a vigorous contender in the field
throughout the first four centuries after the death of Christ - a
fact not always well recognized. Historically, Christianity's
relationship with Judaism continued to be intimate but ambivalent
long after their separation. This has distorted scholarly
perceptions right down to our own day, when the religious history
of the period still tends to be written from a Christianizing
perspective. The suggestion of this book is that we can and should
reassess, from a more neutral position, how the competition between
these three religions influenced the development of each of them.
"The Jews Among Pagans and Christians" offers a model of this
complex area by drawing on a variety of types of material and
method. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers
of classics, ancient history, Jewish studies, theology and
religious studies.
For many years commentators have described what is wrong with
business schools - characterizing them as the breeding grounds of a
culture of greed and self-enrichment in global business at the
expense of the rest of society and of nature. Management Education
for the World is a response to this critique and a handbook for
those seeking to educate and create knowledge for a new breed of
business leaders. It presents a vision for the transformation of
management education in service of the common good and explains how
such a vision can be implemented in practice. The 50+20 vision, as
it is also known, was developed through a collaborative initiative
between the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, the World
Business School Council for Sustainable Business and the
U.N.-backed Principles of Responsible Management Education and
draws on the expertise of sustainability scholars, business and
business school leaders and thought leaders from many other walks
of life. This book explores the 21st century agenda of management
education, identifying three fundamental goals: educating and
developing globally responsible leaders, enabling business
organizations to serve the common good, and engaging in the
transformation of business and the economy. It is a clarion call of
service to society for a sector lost between the interests of
faculty, business and the schools themselves at the expense of
people and planet. It sees business education stepping up to the
plate with the ability of holding and creating a space to provide
responsible leadership for a sustainable world embodied in the
central and unifying element of the 50+20 vision, the
collaboratory. Management Education for the World is written for
everyone concerned or passionate about the future of management
education: consultants, facilitators, entrepreneurs and leaders in
organizations of any kind, as well as policymakers and others with
an interest in new and transformative thinking in the field. In
particular, teachers, researchers, students and administrators will
find it an invaluable resource on their journey.
An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four
centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within
and beyond Rome’s ever-changing political boundaries Â
Roman art and architecture is typically understood as being bound
in some ways to a political event or as a series of aesthetic
choices and experiences stemming from a center in Rome itself.
Moving beyond the misleading catchall label “Roman,†John North
Hopkins aims to untangle the many peoples whose diverse cultures
and traditions contributed to Rome’s visual culture over a
four-hundred-year time span across the first millennium BCE.
 Hopkins carefully reconsiders some of the period’s most
iconic works by way of the many practices and peoples bound up with
them. Some of these include the extraordinary and complex effort to
build the Temple of Jupiter; the creative actions and diverse
encounters tied to luxury objects like the Ficoroni Cista; and the
important meanings held by sacred temple sculpture and votive
offerings through their making and subsequent practices of
devotion. Â A key purpose of this book is to question an idea
of Rome that has focused on elite production and the textual
record; Hopkins instead calls attention to the lesser-known—often
silenced—actors who were integral players. The result is a deep
understanding of a diverse and historically rich Italic and
Mediterranean world, as well as the myriad cultures, communities,
and individuals who would have made and experienced art within and
around the changing political boundaries of Rome.
Contents: Introduction Judith Lieu, John North and Tessa Rajak Chapter 1 The Jewish Community and its Boundaries Chapter 2 The Pre-Christian Paul Martin Hengel Chapter 3 Jewish Proselytizing in the First Century A.D. Martin Goodman Chapter 4 History and Theology in the Chritisn Views of Judaism Judith Lieu Chapter 5 The Jews of the Graeco-Roman Diaspora Between Paganism and Christianity, A.D. 312-438 Fergus Millar Chapter 6 Syrian Christianity and Judaism Han Drijvers Chapter 7 From Judaism to Chritianity: The Syriac Version of the Hebrew Bible Michael Weitzman Chapter 8 The Development of Religious Pluralism John North
For many years commentators have described what is wrong with
business schools - characterizing them as the breeding grounds of a
culture of greed and self-enrichment in global business at the
expense of the rest of society and of nature. Management Education
for the World is a response to this critique and a handbook for
those seeking to educate and create knowledge for a new breed of
business leaders. It presents a vision for the transformation of
management education in service of the common good and explains how
such a vision can be implemented in practice. The 50+20 vision, as
it is also known, was developed through a collaborative initiative
between the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative, the World
Business School Council for Sustainable Business and the
U.N.-backed Principles of Responsible Management Education and
draws on the expertise of sustainability scholars, business and
business school leaders and thought leaders from many other walks
of life. This book explores the 21st century agenda of management
education, identifying three fundamental goals: educating and
developing globally responsible leaders, enabling business
organizations to serve the common good, and engaging in the
transformation of business and the economy. It is a clarion call of
service to society for a sector lost between the interests of
faculty, business and the schools themselves at the expense of
people and planet. It sees business education stepping up to the
plate with the ability of holding and creating a space to provide
responsible leadership for a sustainable world embodied in the
central and unifying element of the 50+20 vision, the
collaboratory. Management Education for the World is written for
everyone concerned or passionate about the future of management
education: consultants, facilitators, entrepreneurs and leaders in
organizations of any kind, as well as policymakers and others with
an interest in new and transformative thinking in the field. In
particular, teachers, researchers, students and administrators will
find it an invaluable resource on their journey.
An important new look at Rome's earliest buildings and their
context within the broader tradition of Mediterranean culture This
groundbreaking study traces the development of Roman architecture
and its sculpture from the earliest days to the middle of the 5th
century BCE. Existing narratives cast the Greeks as the progenitors
of classical art and architecture or rely on historical sources
dating centuries after the fact to establish the Roman context.
Author John North Hopkins, however, allows the material and visual
record to play the primary role in telling the story of Rome's
origins, synthesizing important new evidence from recent
excavations. Hopkins's detailed account of urban growth and
artistic, political, and social exchange establishes strong
parallels with communities across the Mediterranean. From the late
7th century, Romans looked to increasingly distant lands for shifts
in artistic production. By the end of the archaic period they were
building temples that would outstrip the monumentality of even
those on the Greek mainland. The book's extensive illustrations
feature new reconstructions, allowing readers a rare visual
exploration of this fragmentary evidence.
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Lord Howe Island
Robert Etheridge, Alfred John North, John Douglas Ogilby
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R849
Discovery Miles 8 490
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Man kann ohne Obertreibung sagen, daE es die Astronomie seit tiber
fUnftausend J ahren als exakte Wissenschaft gibt. In dieser ganzen
Zeit beriihrte sie die letzten Fragen der Mensch- heit. Ihre
Geschichte niederzuschreiben stellt uns vor zahlIose Probleme. Wir
beginnen mit einer Zeit, die wir weitgehend durch
Schlu&folgerungen kennen; wir gehen dann zu Zeiten tiber, von
denen wir wissen, da& das meiste Indizienmaterial
verlorengegangen ist; und wir enden bei den letzten Dekaden eines
Jahrhunderts, das den Astronomen Beachtung und wirtschaftliche
Mittel in nie dagewesenem Umfang beschert hat. Aus einem typischen
Jahrhundert der hellenistischen Ara, einem goldenen Zeitalter der
Astronomie, mogen wir eine Handvoll Texte haben. 1m Gegensatz dazu
werden heute jedes Jahr mehr als zwanzig- tausend astronomische
Artikel veroffentlicht, und, tiber fUnfJahre genommen, ist die Zahl
der Astronomen, unter deren Namen diese erscheinen, von der Ordnung
vierzigtausend. Wenn diese Geschichte also am Anfang wie eine
Skizze anmutet, ist sie notwendiger- weise am Schlu& eine
Silhouette, die den Gegenstand ebenso durch das definiert, was sie
ausla&t, als dadurch, was sie enthalt. Sie schreitet in einem
solchen Ma& immer schneller voran, daE der Raum, der einem
Dutzend hochstwichtiger neuer Bticher gewidmet wird, ein kleiner
Bruchteil davon ist, was am Anfang einer heute ganz trivial
erscheinenden Aussage eingeraumt wird. Das ist kein Zufall.
Man kann ohne Obertreibung sagen, daE es die Astronomie seit tiber
fUnftausend J ahren als exakte Wissenschaft gibt. In dieser ganzen
Zeit beriihrte sie die letzten Fragen der Mensch- heit. Ihre
Geschichte niederzuschreiben stellt uns vor zahlIose Probleme. Wir
beginnen mit einer Zeit, die wir weitgehend durch
Schlu&folgerungen kennen; wir gehen dann zu Zeiten tiber, von
denen wir wissen, da& das meiste Indizienmaterial
verlorengegangen ist; und wir enden bei den letzten Dekaden eines
Jahrhunderts, das den Astronomen Beachtung und wirtschaftliche
Mittel in nie dagewesenem Umfang beschert hat. Aus einem typischen
Jahrhundert der hellenistischen Ara, einem goldenen Zeitalter der
Astronomie, mogen wir eine Handvoll Texte haben. 1m Gegensatz dazu
werden heute jedes Jahr mehr als zwanzig- tausend astronomische
Artikel veroffentlicht, und, tiber fUnfJahre genommen, ist die Zahl
der Astronomen, unter deren Namen diese erscheinen, von der Ordnung
vierzigtausend. Wenn diese Geschichte also am Anfang wie eine
Skizze anmutet, ist sie notwendiger- weise am Schlu& eine
Silhouette, die den Gegenstand ebenso durch das definiert, was sie
ausla&t, als dadurch, was sie enthalt. Sie schreitet in einem
solchen Ma& immer schneller voran, daE der Raum, der einem
Dutzend hochstwichtiger neuer Bticher gewidmet wird, ein kleiner
Bruchteil davon ist, was am Anfang einer heute ganz trivial
erscheinenden Aussage eingeraumt wird. Das ist kein Zufall.
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Lord Howe Island
Robert Etheridge, Alfred John North, John Douglas Ogilby
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R504
Discovery Miles 5 040
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Sons of Tubal-Cain is a comprehensive history of the evolution of
Artificers in the Royal Navy from the introduction of the Engine
Room Artificer in 1868 right through to the last class of
Artificers, to Pass Out from HMS Sultan in 2010. Told with
anecdotes, memories and all sorts of stories from Artificers
themselves in both war and peace, the book is narrated with humour
and affection on the author's part, as he was himself as an
Artificer. This history follows the introduction of the different
trades that the Royal Navy required as the technology became more
sophisticated, with the introduction of the Electrical Artificer in
1901, the need for Ordnance Artificers and, strangely, the
introduction of the Shipwright Artificer as the last trade to join
in 1947. It includes the evolution of the Boy Artificer, Jackie
Fisher's 'Second to None' in 1903 through all the establishments
associated with Artificers and the differing training regimes that
changed over the years as the technical requirements of the ships
in the fleet altered. There are many contributions from retired
Artificers, serving Artificers and also from relatives of
Artificers, going back as far as 1871, with many memories that show
how engineering in the Royal Navy changed and what it required of
its highly trained personnel during the past 150 years. The
foreword has been supplied by the Chief Naval Engineer Officer,
Rear Admiral Rick Thompson CBE.
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